Digital Audio Editing
One of the many digital audio editing programs is Audacity.
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. The latest stable release is Audacity 1.2.6, although a 1.3.6. Beta version is also offered. Its main features include: live audio recording; conversion of tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs; cutting, copying, splicing or mixing sounds together; speed or pitch change; effects such as echo, phaser, wahwah, reverse, and background noise removal; frequency and volume adjustment; sound quality improvement, etc. To download Audacity for Microsoft Windows, click: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
This is an example of what Audacity can do:
Original version:
Edited version:
In this example I followed these editing steps:
·I selected and deleted portions not needed (like clearing throat noise, or little coughing, clicking of mouse, banging noise, or badly recorded). ·I silenced the start and the end portions. ·I did not like how the last sentence sounded, so I recorded it again (it appeared as a second track), cut it from the second track and pasted it on the original track. Then I deleted the previous version, and the second track. ·Between 5.0 s and 6.0 s, there was a very tiny click sound, which I tried to remove by using cross fade out and cross fade in. ·The extra “a” sound between 10.0 s and 11.0 s was deleted. ·I added a bass boost effect to give depth to the sound recording. ·I added a little echo effect to the first and last sentence to give emphasis (not too much as to make it not understandable). ·I applied equalization to the whole sound recording. ·I applied phaser effect to the portion that mentions examples of effects, just to add an extra “dramatic” effect. ·I exported the file as mp3.
Digital Audio Editing
One of the many digital audio editing programs is Audacity .
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. The latest stable release is Audacity 1.2.6, although a 1.3.6. Beta version is also offered. Its main features include: live audio recording; conversion of tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs; cutting, copying, splicing or mixing sounds together; speed or pitch change; effects such as echo, phaser, wahwah, reverse, and background noise removal; frequency and volume adjustment; sound quality improvement, etc.
To download Audacity for Microsoft Windows, click: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
Original version:
Edited version:
In this example I followed these editing steps:
· I selected and deleted portions not needed (like clearing throat noise, or little coughing, clicking of mouse, banging noise, or badly recorded).
· I silenced the start and the end portions.
· I did not like how the last sentence sounded, so I recorded it again (it appeared as a second track), cut it from the second track and pasted it on the original track. Then I deleted the previous version, and the second track.
· Between 5.0 s and 6.0 s, there was a very tiny click sound, which I tried to remove by using cross fade out and cross fade in.
· The extra “a” sound between 10.0 s and 11.0 s was deleted.
· I added a bass boost effect to give depth to the sound recording.
· I added a little echo effect to the first and last sentence to give emphasis (not too much as to make it not understandable).
· I applied equalization to the whole sound recording.
· I applied phaser effect to the portion that mentions examples of effects, just to add an extra “dramatic” effect.
· I exported the file as mp3.